Po Valley
The Po Valley, Po Plain, Plain of the Po, or Padan Plain is a major geographical feature of northern Italy. It extends approximately 650 km in an east-west direction, with an area of 46,000 km2 including its Venetic extension not actually related to the Po basin; it runs from the Western Alps to the Adriatic Sea.
- Type: Plain
- Description: plain in Northern Italy
- Also known as: “Al Padana”, “Basa padèna”, “Bâsa Padèna”, “Llanura del Po”, “Lombardia madalik”, “Pada valo”, “Padan”, “Padan Ovası”, “Padana Tekisligi”, “Padanavenetsiya Tekisligi”, “PadanaVenetsiya tekisligi”, “Padania”, “Padanische Tiefebene”, “Padansletta”, “Padio”, “Padska dolina”, “Padska nizina”, “piana padana”, “pianura bolognese”, “pianura del Po”, “pianura lombarda”, “pianura padana”, “Pianùra padana”, “Pianüra padàna”, “pianura padano-romagnola”, “Pianura Padano-Veneta”, “Plaine du Po”, “Planura padana”, “Po”, “Po River Plain”, “Po-dalen”, “Po-slätten”, “Po-sletta”, “Po-sletten”, “Podalen”, “val padana”, “Val padana”, “Val Padana”, “Val Padàna”, “Valea Padului”, “Vall del Po”, “Valle del Po”, “Долина на По”, “Долина Поа”, “Паданская долина”, “პადანის ვაკე”, “პოს დაბლობი”, “པོ་ཐང་མའི་”, “パダーナ平原”, “パダーノ平原”, and “ロンバルディア平原”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Teatro Giuseppe Verdi and Villanova d’Arda railway station.
Teatro Giuseppe Verdi
Theater building
Villanova d’Arda railway station
Railway station
National Giuseppe Verdi Museum
Museum
The National Giuseppe Verdi Museum is a music museum in Busseto, Province of Parma, Italy. National Giuseppe Verdi Museum is situated 4 km southeast of Po Valley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Polesine Parmense and Madonna dei Prati.
Polesine Parmense
Village
Madonna dei Prati
Village
Le Roncole
Hamlet
Po Valley
- Categories: plain, valley, and landform
- Location: Emilia-Romagna, Northeast Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
45° north
Longitude
10° east
Population
20,000,000
Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)
Open location code
8FQG2222+22
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Po Valley” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Povlakte”
- Arabic: “وادي بو”
- Armenian: “Պադանի հարթավայր”
- Azerbaijani: “Padan ovalığı”
- Basque: “Po ibaiaren harana”
- Belarusian: “Паданская раўніна”
- Bulgarian: “Паданска низина”
- Bulgarian: “Паданска равнина”
- Catalan: “Plana padana”
- Catalan: “Plana Padana”
- Cebuano: “Pianura Padana”
- Chinese: “波河河谷”
- Corsican: “Pianura Padana”
- Croatian: “Dolina Poa”
- Czech: “Pádská nížina”
- Danish: “Posletten”
- Dutch: “Povlakte”
- Emilian: “Pianûra Padâna”
- Esperanto: “Pada ebenaĵo”
- Esperanto: “Pada Ebenaĵo”
- Estonian: “Po madalik”
- Finnish: “Pojoen laakso”
- French: “plaine du Pô”
- French: “Plaine du Pô”
- Georgian: “პადანის დაბლობი”
- German: “Po-Ebene”
- Greek: “Κοιλάδα του Πάδου”
- Hebrew: “עמק הפו”
- Hungarian: “Pó-síkság”
- Indonesian: “Lembah Po”
- Italian: “Pianura padana”
- Italian: “Pianura Padana”
- Japanese: “ポー平原”
- Kazakh: “Падан жазығы”
- Kirghiz: “Падан түздүгү”
- Korean: “포 계곡”
- Latin: “Planities Padana”
- Lezghian: “Падана кьулувал”
- Ligurian: “Cianûa padann-a”
- Lithuanian: “Po lyguma”
- Lombard: “Pianüra Padana”
- Macedonian: “Паданска Низина”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Posletten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Posletta”
- Norwegian: “Posletten”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Plana de Pò”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Plana del Pò”
- Persian: “دره پو”
- Polish: “Nizina Padańska”
- Portuguese: “Planície Padana”
- Romanian: “Câmpia Padului”
- Russian: “Паданская низменность”
- Russian: “Паданская равнина”
- Serbian: “Padska nizija”
- Serbian: “Падска низија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dolina Poa”
- Sicilian: “Chianura padana”
- Slovak: “Pádska nížina”
- Slovenian: “Padska nižina”
- Spanish: “llanura padana”
- Spanish: “Llanura Padana”
- Swedish: “Poslätten”
- Swiss German: “Poebene”
- Swiss German: “Poebeni”
- Tibetan: “པོ་ཐང་མ།”
- Turkish: “Po Ovası”
- Ukrainian: “Паданська рівнина”
- Urdu: “وادی پو”
- Uzbek: “Padana tekisligi”
- Venetian: “Pianura Padana”
- Vietnamese: “Thung lũng Po”
- Vlaams: “Povlakte”
- Western Panjabi: “وادی پو”
- Wu Chinese: “波河河谷”
- Yue Chinese: “波谷”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Zona Industriale and Casteldardo.
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Highlights: Ca‘ Fedeli and Arda.
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